What can an Exclusive seller still sell off TPT?
An Exclusive seller can still run a website, give away free resources, and sell physical products, courses, Boom Cards, Kindle books, Amazon workbooks and non-educational digital items off TPT. What you cannot sell anywhere else is a digital educational resource, or anything that bundles access to one.
Everything below comes from TPT’s own pages as we read them on October 3, 2026: the Exclusive Seller announcement and the Exclusive Seller FAQs. We have not added any rules of our own. If your product is not clearly on one list or the other, ask TPT.
The short version
| Off TPT, an Exclusive seller may | Off TPT, an Exclusive seller may not |
|---|---|
| Run their own website and promote their resources on it | Sell digital educational resources |
| Offer free resources | Sell memberships or subscriptions that include access to digital educational resources |
| Sell physical products | Sell licenses for digital educational resources |
| Sell courses and professional development | Offer payment plans for digital educational resources |
| Sell Boom Cards on the Boom platform | |
| Sell Kindle books | |
| Sell hard-copy workbooks on Amazon | |
| Sell digital items unrelated to education, such as clip art and fonts |
The rule covers resources you never put on TPT
This is the part sellers miss on a first read. Exclusive means you sell digital educational resources only on TPT, including ones you have never listed there. A resource that exists only on your own site still counts. Under Exclusive it has to come down, move to TPT, or become free.
Your website can stay
Exclusive does not ask you to close your site. TPT says Exclusive sellers may run their own website and promote their resources on it. A blog, an about page, an email sign-up form and posts that describe your resources are all fine under that wording. What changes is the checkout. Under Exclusive, your own site cannot take payment for a digital educational resource.
The free-resource rule
You may offer free resources both on TPT and off it. The one restriction TPT states is that you cannot charge on TPT for something that is free elsewhere.
In practice that means a freebie you give away for joining your email list is fine. It also means that if the same resource is a paid listing on TPT, you have a problem. Go through your freebies and make sure none of them is also a paid TPT listing.
This matters because free resources are how most teacher-sellers build an email list, and an email list is one of the few things you fully own. Exclusive leaves that door open.
Memberships and subscriptions
A membership or subscription that includes access to digital educational resources is not allowed off TPT under Exclusive. Neither is a license for those resources, such as a school or multi-teacher license sold through your own site, or a payment plan for them.
Courses and professional development are on the allowed list. So a paid training for teachers appears to be fine, while a monthly resource club is not. If your course comes with printables for the classroom, you are in a grey area that TPT’s pages do not settle. Ask TPT in writing and keep the answer.
Boom Cards, Kindle and Amazon
TPT lists Boom Cards sold on the Boom platform as allowed. As of October 2026, Boom Learning’s help page on payouts says it keeps a 15% service fee on sales made through the Boom store. Check that page for current terms before you plan around it.
Kindle books and hard-copy workbooks sold on Amazon are also on TPT’s allowed list, as are physical products in general.
Clip art and fonts
TPT gives clip art and fonts as examples of digital items unrelated to education that an Exclusive seller may sell elsewhere. If part of your business is clip art for other sellers, that part can continue off TPT according to TPT’s wording.
Please do not look for a workaround
We get asked about hidden stores, password-protected pages and second accounts under another name. We will not help with those, and we would urge you not to try them. Selling around the Exclusive rule puts your TPT account at risk. If you want to sell digital resources off TPT, the honest route is Basic, with the lower payout that comes with it.
You can leave Exclusive for Basic at any time. There is no refund of the annual fee, and there is a one-year wait before you can rejoin Exclusive. If you have more than one TPT store, all of them must be on the same membership.
Which side are you on?
If everything you sell off TPT is on the allowed list, Exclusive costs you 2.5 points of payout compared with Premium and nothing else. That is an easy decision.
If you sell digital resources or a resource membership off TPT, the decision is about money. Exclusive keeps $7.75 of a $10 sale. Basic keeps $5.20. Whether your outside sales cover that gap is a sum, not a feeling.
About us
Up At Last builds and hosts stores for teacher-sellers, from $25 a month. We also run our own teacher store, Literacy Stations, which will be a Basic seller from January 1 because it sells digital resources on its own site.
Up At Last is not affiliated with or endorsed by Teachers Pay Teachers.
What to do next
- Run the free calculator to see what each membership pays on your numbers.
- Write down everything you sell or give away off TPT and sort it into allowed, not allowed and unsure.
- Send the “unsure” items to TPT support, or raise them at the seller town hall scheduled for October 8.
- Check that none of your off-TPT freebies is a paid listing on TPT.